Installing VirtualBox Guest additions in Debian Buster

VirtualBox Guest Additions allow a good number of  host to guest integrations that makes using the VM easier to use, for example copy/pasting text from host to guest and vice versa is very convenient. Another useful feature is resizing the window of the guest VM.

To enable/install VirtualBox Guest Additions, do:

$: sudo apt install dkms

From VirtualBox Guest main UI, select Devices | Install Guest Additions..., then:

$: cd /media/cdrom
$: sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
$: sudo reboot

Note:

• Copy/Paste is broken in 6.1.4, see https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19336. Test build VBoxGuestAdditions_6.1.5-136446.iso works for me. 

Keywords: Debian Buster, Debian 10.3